10.2

Cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting anchored boxes and lines
To cut or copy an anchored item, select the item as you would any text character and
choose Edit > Cut or Edit > Copy. To paste the anchored item elsewhere, place the
Text Insertion bar in a different location and choose Edit > Paste. To delete an anchored
item, select the item or insert the Text Insertion bar after it, and press Delete/Backspace.
Unanchoring boxes and lines
To unanchor an item, select it with the Item tool and choose Item > Duplicate to
create an unanchored copy of the item — the duplicated item will be placed on the
page according to the settings in the Super Step & Repeat dialog box (Item menu).
Then delete the anchored item from the text by selecting it with the Text Content
tool and pressing Delete/Backspace.
If you want to anchor objects that should remain outside the boundaries of a text box
or are wider than the text box you are trying to anchor it in, then use the Callout
functionality.
Working with OpenType fonts
OpenType is a cross-platform font format developed by Adobe and Microsoft that
accommodates large character sets and glyphs, often including fractions, discretionary
ligatures, old-style numerals, and more. When text has an OpenType font applied,
you can access any style options built into that font through the Character Attributes
dialog box (Style > Character) (Windows only), or the Character/Character Attributes
tab of the Measurements palette.
Learning about the distinction between characters and glyphs can help you understand
how OpenType styles work. A character is an element of a written language — uppercase
letters, lowercase letters, numerals, and punctuation are all characters. A glyph is
actually an image that represents a character, possibly in different forms. For example,
a standard numeral 1 is a character, whereas an old-style numeral 1 is a glyph. As
another example, an "f" and an "I" next to each other are characters, whereas an "fi"
ligature is a glyph.
A one-to-one relationship does not always exist between characters and glyphs. In
some cases, three characters (such as a 1, a virgule, and a 4) make up a single fraction
glyph. Or, one character may be represented by three possible glyphs (three different
ampersand symbols, for example). You can select individual characters for formatting
and editing, regardless of the glyphs used.
Applying OpenType styles
You can apply an OpenType "style" to characters to display different, specially designed,
or repositioned glyphs within the current font. For example, you can apply Fractions
to access specific fraction glyphs instead of manually formatting fractions by resizing
and repositioning existing characters. Likewise, applying Standard Ligatures represents
characters according to ligatures available in the font. (See "Using ligatures" for more
information.) You can apply many styles in combination, although some, such as
Superscript and Subscript, are mutually exclusive.
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